Attributed to Smart (John, 1742-1811). Lady Wigram, circa 1800, gouache and watercolour on ivory, head and shoulders portrait of a young woman wearing a high necked regency dress with a ruffled neck, and a jewelled slide in her hair, image size 7.5 x 6cm (3 x 2 3/8ins), identified as Lady Eleanor Wigram on verso, hand written note to verso 'This miniature was sold at Christie's by Canon Sir Clifford Wigram on 18 June 1974', original ebonised frame, (15.8 x 12.6cm), together with Silhouette Portrait of a lady, unknown artist, painted and highlighted in gilt, head & shoulders of a woman, profile to the right, showing a woman in Romantic style dress with puff sleeves and low shoulders, hair worn up with an ornate high hair comb, tight curls running down the side of her face, cut out and laid onto paper, sheet size 12.1 x 9.8cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4ins), hand written note on verso 'For my dearest little Fanny given her on the 25th June by her most affectionate friend Louisa Clarke', (17 x 14.4cm), framed and glazed, plus Turner (Charles, 1773-1857). 'The Family of Sir Robert Wigram Bart.', published London, 1826, uncoloured engraving, showing Sir Robert Wigram with his second wife Lady Wigram and his twenty-three children all standing or sitting in a row, a portrait of Sir Robert Wigram deceased first wife hanging above the fireplace in the background, on the right a large urn raised on a platform sitting behind the family members, 50.5 x 92cm (19 7/8 x 36 2/8ins), key on verso, framed and glazed (65.4 x 102.5cm), with a key for the portrait made for 'Thomas Venable Scudamore, Uncle to Barbara Scudamore Mitchell, wife of Anthony James Watson', listing the names of all the family members, and Silhouette Portraits, two painted portraits one of a gentleman and the other of a lady, toned, along with a reverse silhouette of a gentleman looking to the left His number of children is listed as twenty-one in his obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1830) but as twenty-three in the recent ODNB entry by Anne Pimlott Baker.
Attributed to Smart (John, 1742-1811). Lady Wigram, circa 1800, gouache and watercolour on ivory, head and shoulders portrait of a young woman wearing a high necked regency dress with a ruffled neck, and a jewelled slide in her hair, image size 7.5 x 6cm (3 x 2 3/8ins), identified as Lady Eleanor Wigram on verso, hand written note to verso 'This miniature was sold at Christie's by Canon Sir Clifford Wigram on 18 June 1974', original ebonised frame, (15.8 x 12.6cm), together with Silhouette Portrait of a lady, unknown artist, painted and highlighted in gilt, head & shoulders of a woman, profile to the right, showing a woman in Romantic style dress with puff sleeves and low shoulders, hair worn up with an ornate high hair comb, tight curls running down the side of her face, cut out and laid onto paper, sheet size 12.1 x 9.8cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4ins), hand written note on verso 'For my dearest little Fanny given her on the 25th June by her most affectionate friend Louisa Clarke', (17 x 14.4cm), framed and glazed, plus Turner (Charles, 1773-1857). 'The Family of Sir Robert Wigram Bart.', published London, 1826, uncoloured engraving, showing Sir Robert Wigram with his second wife Lady Wigram and his twenty-three children all standing or sitting in a row, a portrait of Sir Robert Wigram deceased first wife hanging above the fireplace in the background, on the right a large urn raised on a platform sitting behind the family members, 50.5 x 92cm (19 7/8 x 36 2/8ins), key on verso, framed and glazed (65.4 x 102.5cm), with a key for the portrait made for 'Thomas Venable Scudamore, Uncle to Barbara Scudamore Mitchell, wife of Anthony James Watson', listing the names of all the family members, and Silhouette Portraits, two painted portraits one of a gentleman and the other of a lady, toned, along with a reverse silhouette of a gentleman looking to the left His number of children is listed as twenty-one in his obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1830) but as twenty-three in the recent ODNB entry by Anne Pimlott Baker.
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